Write all of your answers on this answer sheet. Put your name on it, print it, and submit it at the end of today’s class.
Part One: Multiple Choice (3 points each) Put the correct LETTER on your answer sheet.
1. Patrick Henry, Henry Lee, and Thomas Jefferson came from the state of:
2. Paul Revere’s famous “Midnight Ride” was written in a poem by:
3. In his ride, Revere warned the colonists in these towns:
4. Revere’s ride occurred on the nights of April 18 th and 19 th,
5.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.”
Who said this?
6.
“If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!”
Who said this?
7. His son was the Governor of New Jersey:
8. According to Thomas Jefferson, what must people do if their government abuses them?
9. In writing the Declaration of Independence, who was the most influential figure to Jefferson?
10. “Give me liberty or give me death”? Where was this line delivered?
11.
According to Jefferson, “He” is:
12. In his autobiography, Ben Franklin describes his arrival in the town of
13. The number of grievances declared in Jefferson’s famous document:
14. The Minutemen were able to hold off the British at Lexington and Concord because:
Part Two: Short Answers (3 points each)
15. Name the two purposes of the Declaration of Independence.
16. Name the unalienable rights mentioned in the preamble (there are 3).
17. What are the dates of Patrick Henry’s speech, Paul Revere’s ride and the writing of the Declaration of Independence?
18. What state did John Adams come from?
19. Name a Connecticut signer of the Declaration of Independence.
20.
“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
According to this quote, a government’s power comes from the consent of the governed. What does that mean?
Part Three: Matching (2 points each)
Select one of the documents and write the correct letter on your answer sheet.
21. Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other.
22. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
23. One today is worth two tomorrows
24. A cry of defiance, and not of fear,/ A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,/ And a word that shall echo for evermore!
25. Fish and visitors smell in three days
26. The watchful night-wind, as it went/Creeping along from tent to tent,/
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
27. Temperance. Silence. Order. Resolution. Frugality. Industry. Sincerity. Justice. Moderation. Cleanliness. Tranquility.
28. Our Northern brethren, also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
29. That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
30. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security
Part Four: Essay (20 points)
What is a patriot?
What is required to be one?
Write a three part essay of no less than 600 words to answer these questions. Provide your own definition and use specific examples and quotes from all of the materials you have studied to support your statements.Type the essay and attach it to your answer sheet.